Micah Beasley

“He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence.”
― Craig Willse, Providence

“Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours